stpatricks

Wow, great to see it before it was surrounded by scrapers...

This is a great image! Here is a shot I took of it this month from a similar angle:

Great shot. It looks as though it was taken from some height up about four floors judging by the building on the left. The Cathedral looks smaller, too.

Dated twice 10/14/14

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The bomb exploded on Oct 13, 1914. A story about the bombing (an anarchist provocation) is in The Washington herald., October 15, 1914, Page 2, Image 2 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1914-10-15/ed-... books.google.com/books?id=lm0SCspDOjQC&pg=PA100&l... describes the spate of anarchist bombings around the same time.

Retired at last and swanq: Thanks for the information regarding both the date of this photograph and further context for the event. We will add more detail to the description when we update.

Another one of those from-the-floor trial shots
Frank Abarno [1891-1978, (called Arbano in Times story), 22, one of the Italian anarchist bombers who plotted to blow up St. Patrick's Cathedral on March 2, 1915, and Carmine Carbone 18, the maker of the bomb:
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A00E6DB1238E633A...

news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19150308&...

Thanks for supplying the details and connecting it up to the related photograph and photos taken from a similar angle. We can add some information to the description when we next update.

Were they convicted?

FreeRangeBob: Here's a little more about the trial, looks like they were convicted, April 2, 1915. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?

Bresci Circle, the anarchist group www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60839042 Frank Abarno (1891-1978) www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19662205 Carmine Carbone www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115259062